Isaac Pitman -- creator of the eponymous shorthand system -- argued that if you write to a pen-pal in shorthand, "friendships grow six times as fast as under the withering blighting influence of the moon of longhand": https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n23/leah-price/diary …
In an awesome @LeahAtWhatPrice piece
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Yep yep You can see the industrial-age engineering obsession with efficiency all over the place back then
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I feel like someone should write a doctoral thesis about this.
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